./install.sh
Welcome to the Google Cloud SDK! To help improve the quality of this product, we collect anonymized usage data and anonymized stacktraces when crashes are encountered; additional information is available at <https://cloud.google.com/sdk/usage-statistics>. You may choose to opt out of this collection now (by choosing ‘N’ at the below prompt), or at any time in the future by running the following command: gcloud config set disable_usage_reporting true Do you want to help improve the Google Cloud SDK (Y/n)? y Modify profile to update your $PATH and enable shell command completion? Do you want to continue (Y/n)? y The Google Cloud SDK installer will now prompt you to update an rc file to bring the Google Cloud CLIs into your environment. Enter a path to an rc file to update, or leave blank to use [/Users/charlesedge/.bash_profile]: Backing up [/Users/charlesedge/.bash_profile] to [/Users/charlesedge/.bash_profile.backup]. [/Users/charlesedge/.bash_profile] has been updated. > Start a new shell for the changes to take effect. For more information on how to get started, please visit: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/quickstartsInside that bin folder, you’ll find the gcloud python script, which once installed, you can then run. Next, you’ll need to run the init, which links it to your CloudPlatform account via oauth. To do so, run gcloud with the init verb, which will step you through the process:
gcloud init
Welcome! This command will take you through the configuration of gcloud. Your current configuration has been set to: [default] You can skip diagnostics next time by using the following flag: gcloud init –skip-diagnostics Network diagnostic detects and fixes local network connection issues. Checking network connection…done. Reachability Check passed. Network diagnostic (1/1 checks) passed. You must log in to continue. Would you like to log in (Y/n)? yIf you say yes in the above screen, your browser will then prompt you with a standard Google oauth screen where you’ll need to click Allow. Now go back to Terminal and pick a “Project” (when you set up billing the default was created for you):
Pick cloud project to use: [1] seventh-capsule-138123 [2] Create a new project Please enter numeric choice or text value (must exactly match list item): 1
gcloud compute instances list
Listed 0 items.Note: If you have a lot of these you can use
--regexp
to filter them quickly. Then let’s pick a machine type. A description of machine types can be found at https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/machine-types. And an image. Images can be seen using the compute command with images and then list, as follows: gcloud compute images list
Now, let’s use that table from earlier and make a custom machine using an ubuntu uri, a –custom-cpu and a –custom-memory: gcloud compute instances create krypted1 –image https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/ubuntu-os-cloud/global/images/ubuntu-1610-yakkety-v20170502 –custom-cpu 2 –custom-memory 5 You’ll then see that your VM is up, running, and… has an IP: Created [https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/seventh-capsule-138523/zones/us-central1-a/instances/krypted1]. NAME ZONE MACHINE_TYPE PREEMPTIBLE INTERNAL_IP EXTERNAL_IP STATUS krypted1 us-central1-a custom (2 vCPU, 5.00 GiB) 10.128.0.2 104.154.169.65 RUNNINGNow let’s SSH in:
gcloud compute ssh krypted1
This creates ssh keys, adds you to the hosts and SSH’s you into a machine. So viola. You’re done. Oh wait, you don’t want to leave it running forever. After all, you’re paying by the minute… So let’s list your instances: gcloud compute instances list
Then let’s stop the one we just created: gcloud compute instances stop krypted1
And if you’d like, tear it down: gcloud compute instances delete krypted1
Overall, super logical, very easy to use, and lovely command line environment. Fast, highly configurable VMs. Fun times!$ gcloud init
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by defaulteurope-west4
by defaulteurope-west4-a
by defaultgcloud help config
to learn how to change individual settingsgcloud topic configurations
to learn more.gcloud — help
to see the Cloud Platform services you can interact with. And run gcloud help COMMAND
to get help on any gcloud command.gcloud topic — help
to learn about advanced features of the SDK like arg files and output formattingACCOUNT